[Rd] proto and baseenv()

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Ben <misc7 at emerose.org> wrote:
>
>> In end it seems that your real beef is with R so perhaps you should
>> be using a different language.
>
> In my case you may be right.  I do think there are a million things
> wrong with R.  For instance, I was looking for a package that
> overcomes two of the problems R IMHO has: namespace pollution and the
> lack of an easy-to-use standard object system.
>
> Should I be using R?  I do keep asking myself that same question...
>
>> With respect to proto its really just discussing whether to use
>> proto(baseenv(), ...) vs proto(...)
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't fix the problem as was noted earlier:
>
>> z <- 1
>> proto(baseenv(), expr={a <- z})$a
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "z" not found
>

As already mentioned lets not confuse user error with actual problems
pertaining to proto and R.  It should have been written like this if
that is what was wanted:

> z <- 1
> proto(baseenv(), a = z)$a
[1] 1